"Bernie Sanders Has Always Sacrificed Pragmatism For Idealism, But Now Its Hurting Democrats"

[Tom Rinaldo]

113. "I'd like to focus solely on the Republicans."

Now that is a really good idea. Maybe if we work on it, it can become a growing trend on DU.

It's a tough goal I know, but I would be pleased if we could at least get to a point where the strong majority of OP topics that focus negatively on an elected official were ones critical of a Republican elected official, rather than one who is a members of one of our Congressional caucuses.

Every time there is a headline that seems critical of Bernie Sanders it gets posted on DU. It's been pointed out before but people keep doing it, so folks are aware of it but just keep doing it. What does that say?

I see Senator Sanders making far more frequent and far more damning critical statements about Donald Trump and the Republican Party than any doubt that he expresses about any Democrats. Maybe that is why he is on the U.S. Senate Democratic Leadership Team.

Hopefully people realize that a lot of Democratic voters respect Bernie Sanders or he would not have won 45% of the votes in our presidential primaries. People tend to look unfavorably on seeing those they respect vilified in ways - when most activists want to, as you say, "focus solely on the Republicans."

We can disagree of course, but I am not going to engage further on that point on this thread, which of course would have the automatic result of bumping a thread critical of Senator Sanders back to the top of the General Discussion Forum. I have found it interesting in the past how thoroughly stimulating discussions about the way Bernie "demonizes" the Democratic Party must be to those who feel that way, since it seems nigh impossible to exhaust the number of observations members who believe that have on the subject, thread and thread again.